“The bi-monthly publication — the Android counterpart to an iPhone magazine Dixon began putting out earlier this year — launched Nov. 11,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. “‘It’s funny really because I don’t think we would sell many magazines on Android through Apple App Store,’ Dixon told Media Watch. ‘But the question is where this is going.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you didn’t expect to sell the thing, then why did you submit it? Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines, with which every developer should be familiar, specifically state, “Apps with metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected.”
This is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to gin up some free publicity at Apple’s expense. Pure douchebaggery, plain and simple. The old “get it rejected and then run to the media like a whiny little bitch” is an unsound business plan.
Apple ought to kick his iPhone magazine out of their, emphasis their, App Store, too.
“douchebaggery”
My word of the day. Thanks MDN!
Android is created by fools at Google, manufactured by fools like Samsung, used by fools who are Apple haters. Ergo, developing & publishing for the Android platform makes you a fool.
digital socialists, unite! Let’s convert computer business into democrazy!
So now where am I gonna get all my droid news?
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So… is iPhone Magazine found at the Google App. Store? Is their a Google App. Store?
That’s like having an Osama Bin Laden column on the first page of The Hebrew Daily.
“…. like a whiny little bitch”
Sounds like a lot of people we know of these days.
Great!
But what about my gosh-dern, tea-baggin’ freedom!?
Got rid of it because technologist like it. Scared say ya scared.
@Zack – There are reportedly several companies setting up Android app stores, further fragmenting the user experience for those using the OS. MDN should have posted the Related Article.
Looking for a specific Android app? Gotta search multiple stores AND THEN make sure you get the one that works for your phone’s OS version AND THEN make sure it works on your specific phone. Sucks to be them, eh?
Oh Apple. That’s just silly and insecure,
So other publications can’t have Android ads?
@MDN nice job of giving them the free press you bitch about morons.
@ballmer
Super intelligent comment. I bow at your wisdom. How did you get so smart? Must be all your apple products. Wait – you say you’re still in middle school? My bad.
Apple was 100% right in this decision.
Hmmmmm, seems to me that I saw some ads for non Apple computers ón this site. Me thinks MDN should walk the talk.
Joe
@ MacBill,
You’re not into sports, are you? Apple was 110% right.
I say f**k those f**king f**kers! Let ’em stick to making pastry.
Since the mag is solely aimed at technology competing with the iPhone it amounts nothing more than advertisement only. Might as well submit an app and call it adware. Why should it not be rejected?
@DDT
Isn’t that a brand of pesticide? I suggest you spray it on yourself to rid yourself of that virus ridden trash called Android. BTW have you discovered where the ‘on’ button is? Don’t you always get a blank screen on an Android phone that is as blank as your empty brain?
So if I walk into a Ford dealership I expect it to have Toyota brochures in there right? WTF??
Rejecting the app enabled the publisher to get tons of free press and rant about the “evil controlling Apple”. Accepting the app would have led to instant obscurity. The better choice was to accept.
There are tonnes of pro-iPhone related books and material available in the Android market.
Apple is just living up to the image their ground-breaking ‘1984’ commercial protested all those years ago. Censorship is important to control a population.
I had a 3GS and moved to a Nexus One. Happy ever since. For Apple to succeed in the long run, Jobs has to go.
Apple sells music, books, magazines and apps. Most people should expect them to live up to the standards of other people who do similar retail.
If you search for ‘Amazon.com’ at Barnes and Noble’s website, you will get 43 results including Nookbooks.
This is a bad decision by Apple and I agree with 8^þ – the press coverage is more damaging than allowing the magazine ever would have been.
Apple sells music, books, magazines and apps. Most people should expect them to live up to the standards of other people who do similar retail.
If you search for ‘Amazon.com’ at Barnes and Noble’s website, you will get 43 results including Nookbooks.
This is a bad decision by Apple and I agree with 8^þ – the press coverage is more damaging than allowing the magazine ever would have been.
Apple sells music, books, magazines and apps. Most people should expect them to live up to the standards of other people who do similar retail.
If you search for ‘Amazon.com’ at Barnes and Noble’s website, you will get 43 results including Nookbooks.
This is a bad decision by Apple and I agree with 8^þ – the press coverage is more damaging than allowing the magazine ever would have been.